Katy B

One of the brightest young vocalists in UK dance music, Katy B brought the London dubstep scene into the pop charts with a string of dancefloor anthems. A graduate of the BRIT School, which produced Amy Winehouse, Adele and Kate Nash, Katy B (real name Kathleen Anne Brien) first rose to attention on the former pirate radio station Rinse FM, where she sang on white label tracks for MC Geeneus and a number of other producers under the name Baby Katy. Her 2010 debut solo single "Katy on a Mission," produced by Benga, broke out of the clubs and shot into the UK charts as a Number 5 hit, while "Lights On," her collaboration with Ms Dynamite, went one better reaching Number 4. "Broken Record" made it three Top 10 singles before debut album On A Mission (2011) became one of the most acclaimed of the year, reaching Number 2 and being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. An unusually humble and down to earth singer and songwriter with a love of 1990s R&B and dance music, Katy B has gone on to team up with Mark Ronson to record Coca Cola's promotional song "Anywhere in the World" for the London 2012 Olympics. She released her second album Little Red in 2014 and third album Honey in 2016, racking up a string of hit singles in between including chart-topper "Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)" with KDA and Tinie Tempah in 2015 and "I Wanna Be" with Chris Lorenzo in 2016. She teamed up with Sub Focus for the drum 'n' bass-tinged dance-pop of "Push the Tempo" in 2024.